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Germanonautilus sibiricus

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Tainoceratidae

Taxonomy
Germanonautilus sibiricus was named by Sobolev (1989). Its type specimen is IGiG 759/114, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Vtoraya Sentyabrskaya river (pentastichus zone, IGiG coll), which is in a Tuvalian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1989Germanonautilus sibiricus Sobolev p. 44 figs. Pl 7, figs 1-3; pl 8, fig 1; text-figs 21,22

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassNautiloideaAgassiz 1847
orderNautilidaAgassiz 1847
suborderTainoceratinaShimansky 1964
superfamilyTrigonoceratoidea(Hyatt 1884)
familyTainoceratidaeHyatt 1883
genusGermanonautilus
speciessibiricus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Germanonautilus sibiricus Sobolev 1989
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height244.232.061.146.520.6
shell diameter284.461.0116.788.839.4
shell inflation213.810.019.014.56.36

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: actively mobileo
Life habit: nektobenthico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:35:00
Modified: 2009-09-27 12:10:42
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Tuvalian or 232.00000 to 221.50000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tuvalian232.0 - 221.5Russian Federation Germanonautilus sibiricus (type locality: 166556 166567 166568)